Hair-drying fan.



E. H. AMET.

HAIR DRYING PAN.

APPLIUATION FILED Nov. ze, 1909.

Patented .my 5, 1910.

v Ilwf'mw Bda/@Pd m EDWARD I-I. AMET, OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA.

HAIR-DRYING FAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented JulyT 5, 1910.

Application filed November 29, 1909. Serial No. 530,492.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD H. AMET, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Redondo Beach, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Hair-Drying Fan, of which the following is a speciication.

Objects of this invention are: to provide means whereby air may be put into motion by the fanning movement and will be directed and concentrated toward a center; to provide a fan that will avoid the diffusion of air that occurs in the use of fans of former construction; to provide a fan by which a person may direct a current of air toward his head from behind as well as from in front and without diusing or dissipating the air as with ordinary fans.

This invention is especially adapted for use by women in drying their hair after shampooing.

Other advantages and uses may appear from the subjoined detailed description.

The invention may be embodied in various forms.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention in some of the forms in which it may be embodied.

Figures 1, 2 and 3 are pers ective views of the invention in use in one orm of its embodiment. Fig. 4 is a view of the same form looking at the flexible loose edge of the fan when the fan is in horizontal position. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view in section on a plane bisecting the leaf. The forms shown in Figs. 1, 2, 8, 4 and 5 are designed for use in drying hair and the handle consists of jointed extensions of the frame so that the same may be folded for storage and transportation.

The fan comprises a flexible leaf 1 having a loose flexible edge 2 and bent rim 3. Said bent rim may be of any crooked form deflected from and returned to a line drawn from end to end of the flexible edge, and the bent rim 3 is held rigid by suitable means as by a frame comprising a bow 4 held bent by a cord 5. The bow may be made of any suitable material, preferably light resilient and compact, and the cord may also be of any suitable material, as a wire or a string. The handle may be applied in various ways and in various positions. In Fig. 6 the handle 6 is attached to the bent frame 4 at the bent edge and in other instances the handle may be formed of two extensions 7 and 8 from the ends of the rigid frame. Said extensions may in some instances'be pivoted as indicated in Fig. 5 by pivots 9 to the ends of the frame.

In practical use the lateral movement of the frame as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 causes the air to iow from the rim toward the center of the loose edge and thence onward from the rim and loose edge, and consequently a person may take the form shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3', 4, and 5 by the tips of the two extensions that form the handle, and by waving the leaf behind the head may direct the flow of air downward upon the head and shoulders, thus enabling the woman to dry her hair after the same has been shampooed.

In using the device with the jointed double handle, shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, the person is able by reason of the jointed handle to swing the frame sidewise to any desired position for the purpose of directing the air against the sides of the head and against the hair over the shoulders.

I claim:

1. A fan comprising a bowed resilient member, a cord attached to the ends of the member to retain it in bowed form and a leaf having a flexible edge practically parallel with the cord, and also having a rim fixed to the bowed member.

2. A fan comprising a bowed resilient member, a cord attached to the ends of the member to retain it in bowed form, a leaf having a flexible edge practically parallel with the cord, and also-having a rim fixed to the bowed member; and a handle on the I bowed member.

3. A fan comprising a bowed resilient member, a cord attached to the ends of the member to retain it in bowed form, a leaf having a flexible edge practically parallel with the cord, and also having a rim fixed to the bowed member; and jointed extensions of the bowed member to form a handle therefor.

4. A fan comprising a flexible leaf having a resilient rim and two extensions jointed to the rim to form a handle for the leaf whereby the fan is adapted for convenient se in drying the hair substantially as set orth.

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5. y'A fan comprising kan frame, a leaf and In testimony whereof, I have hereunto a handle, the leaf being inclosed `Within the set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this Vframe and having a, resilient rim, and the 23d day of November, 1909;

, handle being formed of two extensions pro- EDWARD H. AMET. jectingfrorn the frrne t' the ends of said In presence 01E- rim, substantially as and for the purpose JAMES R. ToWNsEND,

kkset forth. Y L. BELLE RICE. 

